Choices

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No: HPFGUIDX 86548

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "marigoldevans" <kmsyarto at h...> wrote:
> 
> 
> Wowie!  Wow!  Wow!  I've never actually considered the idea of Evil 
> Overlord Harry before...  Now that I'm picturing it, I have a couple 
> reservations.
>

Kneasy:
Understandable and expected.
I don't really see Harry as Voldy Mk II either, though it *could* happen
since Harry  is  likely to have accumulated sufficient magical power
to make himself a contender for the heavywieght crown by the time
of the final showdown.

marigoldevans: 
> Harry passes on several opportunities to get revenge or to make 
> himself feel better at the expense of someone else.....
> 
> I think that, with the people he cares about, he is quite in touch 
> with his finer instincts.  With the others, well, that's another 
> story....
  
> In fact, I just had a thought in support of 
> Kneasy's theory.  What if Dumbledore died, and Snape took over as 
> head of the Order?!  Boy howdy!  I could see Harry not wanting to 
> have anything to do with that!
> 

Kneasy:
The way I see it, Harry may see three possible choices, not two.
There is the knight errant route, there is the Dark side route and
there is the third, which is the one I think he'll try for.

He'll try to opt out.
He's getting close to adulthood and he doesn't see why he should
blindly follow Dumbledore's  plans like a little clockwork mouse.
He doesn't want the expectations of DD and others on his shoulders;
he doesn't want the responsibility of saving the WW, he wants to be
just Harry. Free to choose his career, free to do what he wants when
he wants.

So  far he's had no real choices at all. He probably suspects that he
is DD's surrogate, a reluctant conscript in a war he wants no part of.
"Why me?" will be the question he asks. And it's likely that the answer
"Because that's the way it is," will not satisfy him. If he refuses to
cooperate, to try to step aside and avoid the 'pre-ordained' script
that DD dumped on him at the end of OoP then it could cause
immense difficulties for the Order.

Dumbledore could not allow it to happen, setting the scene for
further splits  within the  'good' side (guess who's side Molly would
be on). It could get very messy indeed. Only  threats to his friends
or actual casualties within the Order might get him to reconsider.
If the plot did develop this way, then the likliest cause of the
casualties would be DD's insistence that Harry  be protected despite 
his lack of cooperation. Someone could sacrifice themselves to
save Harry from his own actions.

Now wouldn't that be interesting if it was Snape or DD?

Kneasy